Echo | Notes for Writers
Prewriting app to capture and develop ideas
342 followers
Prewriting app to capture and develop ideas
342 followers
Think before you write.
Write from abundance, not scarcity.
The prewriting app for online writers to capture and develop ideas. No AI ghostwriting, just your perspective.
This is the 2nd launch from Echo | Notes for Writers. View more
Echo Projects
Capture messy thoughts and shape them into outlines, without breaking your flow. Echo Projects uses AI to guide your thinking, not do it for you.
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Echo | Notes for Writers
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Thomas "Toma." Reuben, Omar and I are back with something new.
When we first launched Echo here last October, our goal was simple: make it feel natural to capture ideas the moment they strike by talking to yourself, not typing into a blank page.
Since then, we've learned something crucial: Capturing your thoughts is just the beginning. The real challenge is developing them.
That’s why today we’re launching Echo Projects, a new way to turn your raw notes into structured outlines you can actually use.
Whether you're working on a blog post, a pitch, a product idea, or just trying to get clear on something… Echo helps you get started with what you already have: your own messy, unfinished thoughts.
Here’s how I use it:
Record thoughts while walking
Have Echo ask me questions to fill in the gaps in my thinking
Discover patterns across my rambling notes
Create an outline I can actually use
The magic is that it's entirely grounded in YOUR words and YOUR thinking — not generic AI content. It saves me about 30 minutes each time I'm working on an article, presentation, or investor memo.
If you've ever stared at a blank page thinking "I know I have the pieces somewhere in my head..." then Echo Projects is for you.
We're a small team building in public, and your feedback means everything to us. We'll be here all day answering questions!
Thanks for checking us out 🙏
Echo | Notes for Writers
Hey everyone! I'm Reuben Thanks for supporting Echo Projects.
FAQs
How is Echo different from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots?
You don't talk to AI, you talk to yourself
Echo project outputs have missing sections - grounded in your thinking, not AI slop
What makes Echo different from other note-taking apps?
It's not for capturing everything, it's specifically designed for developing ideas
Is Echo just for voice notes?
No
What platforms is Echo available on?
iOS, web, Apple Watch, and Chrome
Is my data private?
Absolutely. Private and secure.
What does Echo cost?
Free for casual use. Upgrade to get serious.
How can I give feedback or get involved?
Comment here, join our discord, or email us directly
Laudspeaker
@rabraham Really excited about the web extension!
Echo Projects feels like having a smart assistant gently organizing my scattered ideas without taking over.
Echo | Notes for Writers
@supa_l thank you for the support! Yes, that's exactly the idea. We want Echo to help bring the best out of your ideas, not filling them in for you.
Really excited about this feature! I like that I'm able to chat with Echo to revise the outline that's generated and accept/reject individual revisions. I also like the focus on preserving my voice by simply suggesting what's missing instead of automatically filling something in on its own. Could you share a bit more about how Echo ensures behind the scenes that generated outlines are based only on my notes?
Echo | Notes for Writers
@simlee Yeah that was a key focus for us! Without going into too much detail, we use examples to help the LLM understand that everything in the outline should be sourced from the user's notes and not outside info. However, we're constantly tweaking how everything works to make it as accurate as possible so would love your feedback on how well it works for you!
CreatorCube AI
I like the idea of just going from thought to note and being able to expand upon it to turn into outlines. Does you product allow you to create notes and store them into like a note collection or categorize them / like backend database to store notes to use across devices or do you have to export your ideas into an AI application right away. Would be super useful to keep iterating directly from within the app so user doesn't have to leave your app at all else they might just get stuck using Claude or ChatGPT thereafter. I can see the potential for sure. Good luck on your launch!
Echo | Notes for Writers
@larrystefanjr Hey! Our core product is designed to allow you to create notes and store them into a collection, automatically organizing your notes into topics so you can get value from minimal friction idea capture. You can query your notes with an LLM. We also provide follow up questions to each note as inspiration for you to think further about things. Our goal is to make the product more useful the more notes you put in (kinda the opposite of something like Apple Notes).
Next3 Offload
Love how Echo is evolving from just capturing thoughts to helping shape them into something useful. Echo Projects feels like the missing link between brainstorming and actual creation, especially for those of us who think better out loud. How does Echo decide which parts of my voice notes to turn into outline points? Can users guide or fine-tune that process?
Echo | Notes for Writers
@shahriarthm So you specify an "idea" for a project (e.g. think of it like a thesis/direction for a written piece), and then we search through your notes for relevant parts to that idea and then help you identify what might be missing. You can then guide or fine-tune the result using the prompting mechanism, or by adding more notes (which will get automatically added to the project when relevant).
Echo | Notes for Writers
@whiletruelearn Thank you!
Echo | Notes for Writers
@whiletruelearn thank you very much!